I'm wondering what's the relationship between the async/await pattern (as known from Scala, F#, C#, etc.) and continuations:
Is the async/await pattern a limited subset of full-blown continuations? ...

I realize this is counter to the usual sense of SO questions, but the following code works even though I think it should not work. Below is a small Scala program that uses continuations with a while ...

I'm basically following the example given at the Scala API page for delimited continuations. The code below works fine:
import scala.util.continuations._
import scala.collection.mutable.HashMap
val ...

Is anyone using delimited continuations for Haskell development, specifically web development? I find the topic fascinating I need something more accessible than what I've been studying.
Here are the ...

I think I understand (in general) what shift and reset mean. However I do not understand why they are named so ? What do shift and reset as Delimited Continuation primitives have to do with "shift" ...

I just finished Programming in Scala, and I've been looking into the changes between Scala 2.7 and 2.8. The one that seems to be the most important is the continuations plugin, but I don't understand ...